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    <title>Early Islamic legal theory</title>
    <subTitle>the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Lowry, Joseph E. (Joseph Edmund)</namePart>
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    <publisher>Brill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiv, 443 p. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Shāfiʻī's concept of the Bayān -- Two hermeneutical techniques -- Prophetic sunna and hadith in the Risāla -- The Qurān in Shāfiʻī's Risāla --  Shāfiʻī's epistemology -- Internal evidence for the Risāla's polemical context -- Ijmā in the Risāla -- The Risāla and its relationship to mature Uml al-Fiqh.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Joseph E. Lowry.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-399) and indexes.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">767 or 768-820</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Islamic law</topic>
    <topic>Interpretation and construction</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Shafiites</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KBP440.62.S53 L69 2007</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">297.812 LOE</classification>
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      <title>Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 30</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9789004163607 (hbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2007047588</identifier>
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